May 30th, 2017 IRC Meeting

Projects

Our Elections

Email sent. Nominations by today. Election ballot by the 30th. Seven days after it is sent out. To Do:

• Send email reminder about nominations this week and next
• Setup ballot (srevilak). For this election, we are implementing Voting Tokens
• Send out ballot this week and before polls close (jokeefe)

PirateCon

• Videos processed. Need to upload to sites and torrent.
• Audio for one panel posted. More audio to edit.

Planks & Other Discussions

• Discussion
  • Reviewed Loomio instance. Looks good. Looking at how to invite people.
  • myBB installed, but not setup completely (jokeefe)
  • Installing mattermost as slack alternative (jokeefe)
  • Installed Matrix client (Riot), but we would need our own server to not be dependent on matrix.org servers.
• Evaluating issue tracking/proj management sw (alternatives to jira), for dealing w/tech issues, or "agile activism"?
• Previous work in this area: https://github.com/masspirates/planks
• Results of the PirateCon discussion posted

Local Chapters

Somerville meeting in two weeks.

Day against DRM

Day Against DRM is Sunday, July 9th. The FSF is looking for people to setup events worldwide and asked if we wanted to help organize an event in Massachusetts.

Upcoming Events

• 5/31, 6-9pm, Somerville Cryptoparty, The Sprouts, 339R Summer Street, Somerville
• 6/3, 5-7pm, LGBT-focused Cryptoparty, Make Shift Boston, 549 Columbus Ave, Boston
• 6/10, Boston Pride Parade, Boston
• 6/21, Edward Snowden's Birthday
• 6/28, 6-9pm, Somerville Cryptoparty, The Sprouts, 339R Summer Street, Somerville
• 7/9, Day against DRM

See: 2017 calendar

Participants

• srevilak (Steve Revilak, Arlington)
• Pepe (Garret K, Lowell)
• hvxgr (Tom Rodman (Milwaukee))
• mlemlemlem

Observers

• davidd
• igel
• pagegaai